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Re: Doubt on Brahma Shabdam!

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champakam • July 27, 2002 


I had raised this question in the list a couple of years back, 
probably more than once, and do not recall getting responses.    This 
has been a question that has occupied my thought for quite some 
time.  I am aware of three supports so far, even though I do not have 
the supports handy to include them in this mail.  One is by SrI 
aNNa'ngarAcArya svAmi, where he argues for brahmA.  The other 
is "daivattin kuRal", where kA'nci maThAdhipati SrI Sankaracharya 
that preceded the current maThAdhipati, supports "brahmA".  I am told 
there is a book that has been published after extensive research by 
one of the Indian Universities (may be Allahabad University), where 
they conclude that bramhA is the correct pronunciation.  I have 
talked to a samskRt scholar who lived in Toronto a few years back, 
and he supported bramhA as well.  I used to have the article by 
aNNa'ngarAcArya svAmi in my possession, but am unable to locate the 
copy right now.  I have the copy of "daivattin kuRal", and can dig 
out the reference.  I do not have access to the research publication 
by the Indian University, but a learned scholar from India who is 
visiting the U.S. now informed me that he has seen the book, and I am 
trying to get a copy of the book.  

I would like to request that when responses are provided for this, if 
possible the person responding may kindly include the support on 
which they base their response.

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan

--- In bhakti-list@y..., "Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy" 
 wrote:
> Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
> Respected Learned Members,
> I have a doubt. Although we write bra-h-ma we pronounce it as bram-
ha. Is 
> this correct or should it be pronounced as bra-h-ma itself? Could 
anyone 
> kindly clarify?
> Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
> Lakshmi Narasimhan
> 
> 



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